Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 10 Dec 2000 04:10:15 -0500 | | From | David Feuer <> | | Subject | Re: swapoff weird |
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At 01:56 AM 12/10/2000 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>[David Feuer] > > Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that > > this is not the last link to a swapfile. > >Much better to add code to /sbin/swapon and /sbin/swapoff to set and >clear immutable bit. Sure it only works on ext2 but how far do you >want to take this thing?
In a private email, linux@horizon.com wrote:
>No; we should add some more magic-symlink /proc entries, like >/proc/<pid>/fd/<n> for swap files. Then they can be accessed >by swapoff even if they're deleted.
Seems like a good idea to me...
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